Hey, hey, hey! Look who's here! My dear friends Josh, Mel, Thea, Sam and Cha! You all look so nice here!



I will definitely miss all of you! (Sob, sob). Let's keep in touch! I wish you all the best in your career and more!

Their group prepared a short song and dance number for the kids.


They also played parlor games with them.


Here is Zoe with her adopted friend Kristal. Zoe gave her an early Christmas gift.


What a wonderful experience! I'm sure all the girls learned the value of sharing especially this Christmas.

I'm definitely going to miss these guys next year. I'm so blessed to have been part of a great team of HR professionals. :-D

Obviously, I've been hooked on IG...

It's really such a fantastic thing to be on semestral break these days. Well, at least for Zoe. School ended last October 25 (when they had a Halloween party) and will resume on November 5. That's so cool, right? 

Before we had the break, we celebrated Mother's Day in their school (where they had some lovely song and dance numbers for us moms). This was right after they finished their quarterly examinations and started the 3rd grading. We're really wishing the Zoe will be able to ace her subjects and garner another special award. She has been trying her best to improve on her Language, Reading and Religion and I really appreciate all her efforts to fare better than the last quarter. If I could, I would have talked her into having her own English tutor but looks like she can still handle her subjects for now. I heard about VarsityTutors and they provide just the right tutorial services for anyone who is struggling with difficult subjects in school. 

Anyway, for now, I leave her academic work on the side and focus on less serious stuff while on vacation. So far, we have done several extra-curricular things at these times. First, there was the annual Trick or Treat event in our village. Zoe and Luigi dressed up as Jessie and Woody of Toy Story. They looked so cute together. It was like Luigi's first serious Trick or Treat event and he gamely went around the whole village trying to get treats from every house that's been tagged as a pit stop. The result? Well, they gathered two big bags of candies and other goodies that will probably last us a good month or so. Tooth decay, beware!!!

Well, another thing is that Zoe was able to join and attend her Daffodils Girl's Club once again. They already moved to another venue somewhere in Kapitolyo and we had to drive around to get to the place. Their activity the last time was making Thank You cards using recyclable arts and crafts. What she did, with the help of the other girls, turned out to be very pretty. Anyway, she's a big girl now. I left her there at the venue and then just picked her up after. And while she was there, the rest of the family went grocery-shopping at the nearby supermarket. Talk about time management!  

To end, I just want to share with you some pictures taken from the Mother's Day event in Zoe's school.  

We celebrated my friend Melanie's birthday last week by going to our favorite videoke place. Our friends made the reservations and I went out to buy the cake for her. It was a lovely and tasty cake from Sugarhouse (Midnight Chocolate Cake).


We obviously all love to sing and to eat so it's really a no-brainer when it came into deciding how we would want to celebrate. And so we rounded up our (their) favorites: Rhianna, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Celine Dion and many other current and old hits. Here's our group picture: myself, Cha, Mel, Sam and Thea.We ordered pizza, buffalo wings, nachos and drinks. They've been trying to learn how to stop drinking so the alcoholic drinks were at a minimal level (I didn't drink but just ate lots, hahaha).




Here's us really getting in the mood to sing and dance.


And I still remember this time - we were singing "Stop" by the Spice Girls but was so bad at the choreography!

Stop right now thank you very much
I need somebody with a human touch
Hey you always on the run
Gotta slow it down baby, gotta have some fun
Do do do do!
Do do do do!


Oh well, maybe next time we will come more prepared.

I've been neglecting this blog for some time (coz I'm secretly hooked on IG). But am taking a minute to post this recent photo of me and my ex-boyfriend. Hahaha. It's October and we are celebrating our anniversary once again.

Happy 7th Wedding Anniv!
Happy 14th BF/GF Anniv!
Happy 15th Anniversary as Friends! :-D

Thanks to Nina for the pic!

My kids' birthdays this year fell on a weekend coinciding with the wedding of my best childhood friend C. Since I was assigned as the Matron of Honor during the wedding (more pictures about that in another post), we decided to bring the kids along to the place where the wedding reception was to be held and stay overnight there together with the family of the bride. The venue was at the Presidio in Sucat. The place was a nice condo community with units which you can rent for a reasonable price. It also had other amenities such as a function room, playground and swimming pool. Thus, the day after the wedding, we were able to take advantage to bring the kids for at least a half-day of swimming. Good thing we had the swimming pool all to ourselves and our friends that day plus the weather was just perfect.

Sharing some pictures of my kids Zoe and Luigi who turned three and six, respectively. See how excited they were to go to the pool.

Getting ready...

 Brother and sister together...


Another shot...


Taken from where I was sitting...


Pictures with friends Ate Chezca and Jacob...


The kids really enjoyed and I vowed that they would stay in the pool all day if they had the chance. They were there for like more than two hours and enjoyed every minute of it. As for me, I was quite happy the area near the pool had an internet connection. At least was able to update my Instagram and other accounts. I even found the time to download smileys for facebook at MyEmoticons.com. Those emoticons will also be helpful to use for my gmail chat and email messaging. It's cool!